The below chronology is taken directly from James Gunn's excellent sf anthology The Road to Science Fiction 2. Initials in parenthesis after title stand for: IFA (International Fantasy Award), H (Hugo), N (Nebula), C (Campbell). Where novels have been serialized, they are dated from the years of serialization. Titles in bold indicate a member of Gunn's "Basic Science Fiction Library" from Volume 1 of his series.
1818
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1826
The Last Man, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1830
The Moon Hoax, Richard Adams Locke
1833
“Ms. Found in a Bottle”, Edgar Allan
Poe
1835
“Hans Pfaall”, Edgar Allan Poe
1844
“The Balloon Hoax”, Edgar Allan Poe
“Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Nathaniel
Hawthorne
1849
“Mellonta Tauta”, Edgar Allan Poe
1858
“The Diamond Lens”, Fitz-James
O’Brien
1864
A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
1865
From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne
1868
The Steam Man of the Prairies, Edward F. Ellis
1869
The Brick Moon, Edward Everett Hale
1870
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea, Jules Verne
1876
Franke Reade and His Steam Man of
the Prairies, Harry Enton
1877
Off on a Comet, Jules Verne
1879
Frank Reade Jr. and His Steam Wonder, Luis Philip Senarens
1886
Robur the Conqueror, Jules Verne
She, H. Rider Haggard
1888
Looking Backward, 2000-1887, Edward Bellamy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
1889
A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain
1894
“The Stolen Bacillus”, H. G. Wells
1895
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
1896
The Island of Dr. Moreau, H. G. Wells
1897
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
“The Star”, H. G. Wells
1898
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Story of Ab, Stanley Waterloo
“The Damned Thing”, Ambrose Bierce
1899
When the Sleeper Wakes, H. G. Wells
1901
The First Men in the Moon, H. G. Wells
The Purple Cloud, M. P. Shiel
“The New Accelerator”, H. G. Wells
1903
The Food of the Gods, H. G. Wells
“The Land Ironclads”, H. G. Wells
1905
A Modern Utopia, H. G. Wells
The Master of the World, Jules Verne
Before Adam, Jack London
“With the Night Mail”, Rudyard
Kipling
1906
In the Days of the Comet, H. G. Wells
1908
The War in the Air, H. G. Wells
1909
A Columbus of Space, Garrett P. Serviss
“The Machine Stops”, E. M. Forster
1911
Ralph 124C 41 +, Hugo Gernsback
The Hampdenshire Wonder, J. D. Beresford
1912
Darkness and Dawn, George Allan England
Under the Moons of Mars (A Princess
of Mars), Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost World, A. Conan Doyle
1914
At the Earth’s Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The World Set Free, H. G. Wells
1915
The Star Rover, Jack London
1917
The Messiah of the Cylinder, Victor Rousseau
“The People of the Pit”, A. Merritt
1918
“The Moon Pool”, A. Merritt
“The Red One”, Jack London
1919
“Dagon”, H. P. Lovecraft
"The Girl in the Golden Atom”,
Ray Cummings
1920
A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay
1921
“R. U. R.”, Karel Capek
“Back to Methuselah”, George Bernard
Shaw
1922
The Chessmen of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
1923
Men Like Gods, H. G. Wells
1924
The Land that Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs
We, Evgennii Zamyatin
1927
“The Tissue-Culture King”, Julian
Huxley
1928
The Skylark of Space, E. E. Smith
Crashing Suns, Edmond Hamilton
“Armageddon-2419”, Philip Nowlan
“The Revolt of the Pedestrians”,
David H. Keller
1929
The Planet of Peril, Otis Adelbert Kline
1930
Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
The Iron Star, John Taine
1932
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
When Worlds Collide, Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie
Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
1933
The Shape of Things to Come, H. G. Wells
1934
The Legion of Space, Jack Williamson
The Mightiest Machine, John W. Campbell
“A Martian Odyssey”, Stanley
Weinbaum
“Twilight”, John W. Campbell
1935
It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
“Proxima Centauri”, Murray Leinster
1936
“The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, H.P. Lovecraft
(BSFL)
1938
Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis
“Hyperpilosity”, L. Sprague de Camp
“The Faithful”, Lester del Rey
1939
“Black Destroyer”, A. E. van Vogt
1940
Final Blackout, L. Ron Hubbard
“Requiem”, Robert A. Heinlein
1941
“Nightfall”, Isaac Asimov
“Reason”, Isaac Asimov
Lest Darkness Fall, L. Sprague de Camp
1942
“Nerves”, Lester del Rey
“Foundation”, Isaac Asimov
1943
“Mimsy Were the Borogoves”, Lewis
Padgett (Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore)
1944
“Desertion”, Clifford Simak
“Deadline”, Cleve Cartmill
1945
The World of Null-A, A. E. van Vogt
1946
Mr. Adam, Pat Frank
“Vintage Season”, Lawrence O’Donnell
(Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore)
“The Million Year Picnic”, Ray Bradbury
The Best of Science Fiction, ed. Conklin
Adventures in Time and Space, ed. Healy/McComas
1947
Rocketship Galileo, Robert A. Heinlein
“With Folded Hands”, Jack Williamson
“The Green Hills of Earth”, Robert
A. Heinlein
“Thunder and Roses”, Theodore
Sturgeon
1948
“That Only a Mother”, Judith Merril
“Brooklyn Project”, William Tenn
(Philip Klass)
Walden Two B. F. Skinner
1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
What Mad Universe, Fredric Brown
1950
“Coming Attraction”, Fritz Leiber
“The Little Black Bag”, Cyril
Kornbluth
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Fury, Henry Kuttner
1951
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
Earth Abides (IFA), George R. Stewart
“The Sentinel”, Arthur C. Clarke
“The Quest for Saint Aquin”, Anthony
Boucher
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Gray Lensman, E.E. “Doc” Smith
1952
The Space Merchants, Cyril Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
The Demolished Man (IFA), Alfred Bester
Star Man’s Son, Andre Norton
The Long Loud Silence, Wilson Tucker
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
City (IFA), Clifford Simak
“The Lovers”, Philip José Farmer
“Sail On! Sail On!”, Philip J osé
Farmer
“The Luckiest Man in Denv”, Cyril
Kornbluth
“What’s It Like Out There?”, Edmond
Hamilton
1953
Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs)
Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber
More than Human (IFA), Theodore Sturgeon
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
1954
Untouched by Human Hands, Robert Sheckley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
“The Cold Equations”, Tom Godwin
“Fondly Fahrenheit”, Alfred Bester
Brain Wave, Poul Anderson
1955
Bring the Jubilee, Ward Moore
“The Game of Rat and Dragon”,
Cordwainer Smith
Under Pressure (Dragon in the Sea), Frank Herbert
1956
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Double Star (H), Robert A. Heinlein
“Pilgrimage to Earth”, Robert
Sheckley
1957
“Call Me Joe”, Poul Anderson
The Lord of the Rings (IFA), J.R.R. Tolkien
1958
The Big Time (H), Fritz Leiber
A Case of Conscience (H), James Blish
“Who Can Replace a Man?”, Brian
Aldiss
1959
Starship Troopers (H), Robert A. Heinlein
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Humanoids, Jack Williamson
Dorsai!, Gordon R. Dickson
1960
A Canticle for Leibowitz (H), Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Deathworld (The Deathworld Trilogy), Harry Harrison
“Rogue Moon”, Algis Budrys
“Sunspot”, Hal Clement
1961
Stranger in a Strange Land (H), Robert A. Heinlein
Hothouse (The Long Afternoon of
Earth) (H), Brian Aldiss
“Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut,
Jr.
1962
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Man in the High Castle (H), Philip K. Dick
“The Dragon Master” (The Dragon
Masters) (H), Jack Vance
“The Streets of Ashkelon”, Harry
Harrison
1963
Way Station (H), Clifford Simak
Dune (H, N), Frank Herbert
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“A Rose for Ecclesastes”, Roger
Zelazny
1964
The Wanderer (H), Fritz Leiber
“Terminal Beach”, J. G. Ballard
“Soldier, Ask Not” (H), Gordon R.
Dickson
“Dolphin’s Way”, Gordon R. Dickson
1965
Nova Express, William Burroughs
“Slow Tuesday Night”, R. A. Lafierty
“ ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the
Ticktockman” (H, N), Harlan Ellison
1966
Babel-17 (N), Samuel R. Delany
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (H), Robert A. Heinlein
Flowers for Algernon (N), Daniel Keyes
“Day Million”, Frederik Pohl
“We Can Remember It for You
Wholesale”, Philip K. Dick
The Crystal World, J.G. Ballard
Orbit (anthology series), ed. Damon Knight
1967
The Einstein Intersection (N), Samuel R. Delany
Lord of Light (H), Roger Zelazny
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
(H), Harlan Ellison
“Driftglass”, Samuel R. Delany
Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison
The Past Through Tomorrow, Robert A. Heinlein
1968
Stand on Zanzibar (H), John Brunner
Rite of Passage (N), Alexei Panshin
“Dragonrider” (N), Anne McCaiirey
“Nightwings” (H), Robert Silverberg
“Masks”, Damon Knight
1969
The Left Hand of Darkness (H, N), Ursula K. Le Guin
Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad
“A Boy and His Dog” (N), Harlan
Ellison
1970
Ringworld (H, N), Larry Niven (BSFL)
The Year of the Quiet Sun (C), Wilson Tucker
And Chaos Died, Joanna Russ
1971
A Time of Changes (N), Robert Silverberg
Tau Zero (H), Poul Anderson
To Your Scattered Bodies Go (H), Philip José Farmer
1972
The Gods Themselves (H, N), Isaac Asimov
Beyond Apollo (C), Barry Malzberg
“When It Changed” (N), Joanna Russ
The Listeners, James Gunn
Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg
1973
Rendezvous with Rama (H, N, C), Arthur C. Clarke
Malevil (C), Robert Merle
“Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” (N),
Vonda McIntyre
“Love Is the Plan, The, Plan is
Death,” (N), James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol.
IIA & IIB, (-1965) ed. Ben Bova
1974
The Dispossessed (H, N), Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (C), Philip K. Dick
“The Engine at Heartspring’s Center”,
Roger Zelazny
1975
The Forever War (H, N), Joe Haldeman
Three to Dorsai, Gordon Dickson
1976
Man Plus (N), Frederik Pohl
The Alteration (C), Kingsley Amis
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (H), Kate Wilhelm
“Tricentennial” (H), Joe Haldeman
The Best of John W. Campbell
The Best of C. M. Kornbluth
1977
Gateway (H, N, C), Frederik Pohl
